PRIVACY POLICY
{Last updated: Feb 13, 2023}
This Privacy Policy explains how felixkappen.com collect, use, and disclose information about you.
This Privacy Policy applies when you visit our website www.felixkappen.com (the “Site”), engage with us on social media, or otherwise interact with us.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our website or sending you a notification). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.
Generally we collect data only for the purpose of running this site and communicating with you.
CONTENTS
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, you share information directly with us when you fill out a form, submit or post a comment, tag us in a social media post, communicate with us via third-party platforms, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of personal information we may collect include your name, email and content you submit in connection to comments or forms, and any other information you choose to provide.
Information We Collect Automatically When You Interact with Us
When you access or use our Site or otherwise transact business with us, we automatically collect certain information, including:
- Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We (and our service providers) use tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about you. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Site and your experience, see which areas and features of our Site are popular, and count visits. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, see our Cookie Policyand the Your Choices section below.
USE OF INFORMATION
We use the information we collect to improve the website performance. We also use the information we collect to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve our Site;
- we may monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Site for information purposes;
- Detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and protect the rights and property of felixkappen.com and others;
- Debug to identify and repair errors in our Site;
- Comply with our legal and financial obligations; and
- Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
We share personal information in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this policy:
- We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
- We may share personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of felixkappen.com, the public, or others.
- We share personal information with lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our interests.
- We share personal information with your consent or at your direction.
We also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS
As of now, there is no advertisement on the website. For privacy-friendly Website analytics the WP-Statistics Plugin for wordpress is used by felixkappen.com out of curiosity for the purpose of tracking site activity. Data that may be collectet: Anonymized IP-Adresses, Country and City Location, Pages visited and time remained.
Some general Information about your system like browser, operating system may also be tracked. These Data will be used to improve the website experience.
TRANSFER OF INFORMATION TO THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES
felixkappen.com is located in Germany. Therefore, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide levels of data protection that are equivalent to those of your home jurisdiction.The website uses coockies from companies located outside of the European Union. We cannot guarantee for the processing of the gathered information. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it.
YOUR CHOICES
Cookies
This website will set cookies that are neccessary for the proper functionality. You have to opt-in for all non-essential cookies. You can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our Site. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, see our Cookie Policy. We try to only use cookies that are essential for the website and have no intereset (yet) in using them for advertisment purposes.
Communications Preferences
If you use the comment function or fill out a form, your information will be stored for the purpose of communication. This information will not be shared with third parties except in the above mentioned cases.
ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN EUROPE
If you are located in the EEA, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have certain rights and protections under the law regarding the processing of your personal data, and this section applies to you.
Legal Basis for Processing
When we process your personal data, we will do so in reliance on the following lawful bases:
- To perform our responsibilities under our contract with you.
- When we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data to operate our business or protect our interests (e.g., to conduct data analytics, and communicate with you).
- To comply with our legal obligations (e.g., to maintain a record of your consents and track those who have opted out of marketing communications).
- When we have your consent to do so (e.g., when you use comments or use a form). When consent is the legal basis for our processing your personal data, you may withdraw such consent at any time.
Data Retention
We store personal data associated with comments or form-activity for the sole of communicating with you. We store personal data for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.
Log Files
Felix Kappen follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Data Subject Requests
Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you and to receive your data in a portable format, the right to ask that your personal data be corrected or erased, and the right to object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing. If you would like to exercise any of these rights by emailing us at wp@wr.fek.datanamics.de
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
- The right of rectification.
- The right to object.
- The right of restriction.
- The right to data portability
- The right to withdraw consent
Third Party Privacy Policies
Felix Kappen’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Felix Kappen does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Online Privacy Policy Only
Our Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Felix Kappen. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at wp@wr.fek.datanamics.de
QUESTIONS OR COMPLAINTS
If you have a concern about our processing of personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority where you reside. Contact details for your Data Protection Authority can be found using the links below:
For individuals in the EEA: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
For individuals in the UK: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
For individuals in Switzerland: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html
CONSENT
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
COOKIE POLICY
This is the Cookie Policy for Felix Kappen, accessible from felixkappen.com
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Cookies Policy Generator.
The Cookies We Set
Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Site preferences cookies
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site?:12}, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies
Wordfence:
- We use Wordfence, a WordPress security plug-in, for our website. Service provider is the American company Defiant, Inc, 1700 Westlake Ave N Ste. 200, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Wordfence also processes data from you in the USA, among other places. We would like to point out that according to the opinion of the European Court of Justice, there is currently no adequate level of protection for the transfer of data to the USA. This may be associated with various risks to the lawfulness and security of data processing.
- As a basis for data processing at recipients located in third countries (outside the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, i.e. in particular in the USA)’or a data transfer there, Wordfence uses so-called standard contractual clauses (= Art. 46. para. 2 and 3 DSGVO). Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) are templates provided by the EU Commission and are intended to ensure that your data complies with European data protection standards even if it is transferred to third countries (such as the USA) and stored there. Through these clauses, Wordfence undertakes to comply with the European level of data protection when processing your relevant data, even if the data is stored, processed and managed in the USA. These clauses are based on an implementing decision of the EU Commission. You can find the decision and the corresponding standard contractual clauses, among others, here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/914/0j?locale=de
- The data processing conditions (Data Protection Regulation), which correspond to the standard contractual clauses, can be found at ‘https://www.wordfence.com/help/general-data- rotection-regulation/.To learn more about the data processed through the use of Wordfence, please read the privacy policy at https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
For more general information on cookies, please read the Cookies Policy article.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
Email: contact@felixkappen.com